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Double the state's offshore wind and solar targets and quadruple energy storage deployment.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 75%

Upheld as PARTIAL after independently fetching all four cited sources; every quote appears verbatim and each supports the composite outcome. This is a three-part promise (double offshore wind target, double solar target, quadruple energy storage). STORAGE: Verified via Foley Hoag — Section 83E of the Nov. 2024 Clean Energy Act directs utilities to contract ~5,000 MW of storage by July 31, 2030 (up from the prior 1,000 MWh 2018 target), and Utility Dive confirms a separate 5 GW storage target under her later executive order — an over-delivery on the quadruple pledge, written into law by her administration. SOLAR: Utility Dive confirms 4 GW of new in-state solar (within a 10 GW-by-2035 new-resources goal), advancing but not clearly doubling the original pledge. OFFSHORE WIND: CommonWealth Beacon confirms the statutory 5,600 MW target was NOT doubled — the Healey administration in fact backed delaying that requirement from 2027 to 2029 amid federal headwinds and contract talks slipping into 2026; notably the Utility Dive EO makes no mention of doubling offshore wind, pivoting emphasis to solar/storage/demand-reduction. WBUR (a legitimate news review of her promises) independently marks the pledge "incomplete." Because she led and over-delivered on storage and advanced solar but failed to (and partly retreated from) doubling the offshore wind target, PARTIAL is the accurate composite — not FULL (offshore wind prong unmet) and not CHAMPIONED (a full prong was walked back).

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